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By Corey Gilkes
April 15, 2010 – trinicenter.com
Over the last few months one of the main stories in the news was an incident involving golfing legend Tiger Woods, his wife and another woman with whom Woods had a secret relationship (well, secret until the mark buss, as we say in Trinidadian parlance). As more...

The Herald
February 23, 2010
THE continuation of the illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe undermines the Global Political Agreement signed by the country’s three main political parties, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has said.
In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, President Zuma blasted the European Union and critics of South Africa’s stance on Zimbabwe.
The EU...

Sending in the Marines
By Judith Scherr
January 29, 2010 – counterpunch.org
THE FRENCH COOPERATION Minister Alain Joyandet accused the U.S. of “occupying” Haiti rather than helping in the wake of the devastating January 12, 7.0 earthquake. Doctors Without Borders and officials from the Caribbean community expressed similar frustrations, as US military personnel controlling the airport turned...

By Margaret Kimberley
January 27, 2010 – blackagendareport.com
“DOLLARS must come with demands of non-interference in Haiti’s affairs and demands of accountability to charitable organizations.”
A telethon hosted by celebrities succeeded in raising more than $57 million in funds for the relief of Haiti earthquake victims. Yet that sum and the many millions more donated by individuals around the...

By John Pilger
January 27, 2010
THE THEFT OF HAITI has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in an American naval blockade and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries,...

By Al Jazeera English
January 25, 2010 – aljazeera.net
IN 2008, in the midst of the global food crisis, we travelled to Haiti to look at the politics of rice – how such a fertile country became dependent on food aid.
In the wake of this current disaster, that dependence is – initially – going to deepen.
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By Robert Jensen
January 25, 2010 – commondreams.org
CNN’s STAR ANCHOR Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unable to get away. Laying down his digital camera (but still being filmed by another CNN camera), Cooper...

By Viv Smith
Socialist Worker
FOUR DAYS AFTER the disaster in Haiti, the media shifted its attention from images of suffering to those of looting.
Talk has turned to keeping “law and order”. Haitians are increasingly depicted as savages.
But the real savages and looters are the US ruling class.
Instead of helping to rebuild Haiti’s infrastructure to meet people’s needs, the US is ensuring that the...

By Sadie Robinson
Socialist Worker
THE SUFFERING of Haiti’s people today is rooted in slavery and imperialism. The Times newspaper has described Haiti as “the unluckiest country” while the racist US evangelical Pat Robertson said that Haitians had “swore a pact to the devil” when they rose up against slavery in the 1790s.
But it is imperialism, not the resistance to it, which has been the problem.
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Peter Hallward, one of the foremost experts on Haiti’s history, spoke to Socialist Worker
THE EARTHQUAKE in Haiti caused, and continues to cause, such terrible destruction and loss of life because the country is so poor. There are three main reasons for that.
Firstly, it is the only place where slavery was overthrown solely by slaves. But it meant a war that lasted 12 years, killed a third of the population,...

By Sir Hilary Beckles
January 23, 2009 – nationnews.com
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme “Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti”.
I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January...